Guest editorial

Abstract

Innovation in children's social care: from conceptualisation to improved outcomes? [. . .] the scale of change needed requires more than incremental improvements and cost reductionsit requires new approaches to practice and service delivery (Children's Social Care Innovation Programme, 2016, p. 3).However, despite the success of some of these innovations, they have not impacted significantly across the system, and the overall number and the rate of children in care and